“It’s fantastic,” Mr. Dudenhoefer said of the performance. “Very strong. Very joyful … I think both the men and the women dancers just show an inner strength and sense of history, and pride in that history.”

“When you look at the way the dancers move with one another, it’s with a sense of purpose,” said Mr. Dudenhoefer. “When you look at the expression on their faces, it just shows a sense of purpose as well. They believe in their history [and] they believe in who they are and what they’re striving to be. They have a sense of their culture and its place in history, and they’re proud to share that with the world.”

“I think discipline comes forth when you watch the way that the dancers work with one another,” he said. “There has to be an inner disciple to live a way of life that allows them to work together the way they do on stage.”

He said that the Chinese are “a people whose place in the world made great contributions to what we have today, and it’s worth knowing how that came to be.”

“There’s a saying that those who do not know history will be forced to repeat it … This is a history worth knowing of people who contributed to the world in a meaningful way, and because of that, very worth knowing more about.”

“I think that in the world, it’s important for us to learn from one another, and where there’s virtue and strength in one place, it’s worthy to know that and learn it and try to make that a part of our life as well.”